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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sphyraenidae

Barracudas

WoRMS 125565ITIS 170424GBIF 5069key worms:125565
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170424 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sphyraena

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Sphyraenidae
Photo · Graham McMartin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

A barracuda is a large, predatory, ray-finned, saltwater fish of the genus Sphyraena, the only genus in the family Sphyraenidae, which was named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815.W CalCOFI holds 574 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, across 3 taxa under it.R

574
observations
574
records
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125565")